- Mosses, hornworts and liverworts
- Fossils of bryophyte spores ~470mya
- Non-vascular; ground hugging carpets
- bodies to thin to support height growth
- Have a rhizoid but not a root
- anchors plant
- does not uptake water
- need to live near water
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Gametophyte dominated life cycle
- sperm needs water to swim to egg on gametophyte